The saddest thing about creative vision, he says, is nobody can see what you’re seeing but you. I tell him I haven’t dropped acid since my 20s, but he isn’t amused. He’s being sad. Your goal in these negotiations is their acquiescence, he says, not their acceptance, not their enthusiasm. Definitely not their enthusiasm. And […]
I’d been my oldest pro bono client’s sole design resource almost since its inception, so it grated to discover that, while I’d been carefully crafting the parent company’s public image, the spinoff had stitched together an ad hoc identity package of its own, one that bore no resemblance to the parent company’s materials, and a […]
As “Rocky Horror” has been to October for quite some time, so now is “Spring Awakening” to the merry month of May. Conversely, no theatre in its right mind would open “A Christmas Carol” on Independence Day, even if that weren’t the slot soon to be reserved for home-grown productions of “Hamilton” and likely to remain so […]
